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Whirlwind romance: What a tornado can do for your relationship

Whirlwind romance: What a tornado can do for your relationship

3 November 2021

Natural disasters boost couples’ satisfaction, plus growing concrete and the microbes having sex in your Stilton, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up
Signs along River road on the Delta waters of the Sacramento River, Calif., as seen on Wednesday July 30, 2014., near Rio Vista, Calif. The Bay Institute, a well-regarded environmental group, has determined the the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to construct tunnels to send water south would cause two salmon species to die out and would

River's End review: Inside the battle for California's water

3 November 2021

When water is scarce, who decides how to divide up what's left? Documentary River's End shows that the winners and losers are all too predictable
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Is it true that use of synthetic fertiliser is increasing everywhere?

3 November 2021

Frequent reports decrying our ever-growing use of synthetic fertilisers don’t reflect reality and fail to see the bigger picture, writes James Wong
Sitting Bull

DNA of Native American leader Sitting Bull matched to living relative

28 October 2021

Tatanka Iyotake, popularly known as Sitting Bull, is famed as a 19th century leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux people – and DNA strengthens the claim that he has living descendants

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